More Cheaper Than A Phone Call

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More Cheaper Than A Phone Call

If you dip your finger into the sea

at Dollymount Strand

as far as I am concerned

you are making indirect contact

with India and Australia

and places like that.

Supposing that the woman you love

is in North Africa

and you are in Ireland.

You could both agree on an exact time

when to dip your hand into the Irish Sea

and she dips hers into the Mediterranean

and you both waggle them to and fro

sending ripples toward one another.

It is truly romantic and deeply symbolic

and you will never become pregnant

no matter how much waggling you do.

It will give you both

an acute sense of togetherness

unless a shark comes along

and bites off your fingers

while you are doing it.

Love Hurts.

Pat Ingoldsby